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washing" with common g-in will often remoTe them. In simi- 

 lar cases, yellow soap well rubbed in, and then washed clean 

 oif, is also a good practice. 



But, however hurtful a too frequent system of water wash- 

 ing may be to healthy dogs ; to diseased ones, both hot and 

 cold bathinsr are of the greatest service. — See Bathing. 



Wens. 



See SciRRHUs, 



TVorming. 



The antients were fertile in errors with regard to the ani- 

 mal economy ; gradually, however, these mistakes gave way to 

 the lio-hts of reason and science. Some few are, nevertheless, 

 still cherished, with a religious veneration, and, what is more 

 remarkable, by the judicious and well-informed likewise. A 

 prominent instance of this appears in the subject before us, 

 that of a supposed worm existing within the under surface 

 of the dog's tongue. Long- before the time of Pliny, such 

 an animal was supposed so to exist, and which erroneous no- 

 tion appears to have been originally derived from observing- 

 that canine madness produced a swelling of the mouth and 

 tongue, which naturally led to an examination of these 

 parts ; when the discovery of a prominent ligamentous sub- 

 stance was readily converted into a worm, which they named 

 lytta *, and which they as readily conjectured to be the true 



* " Est vermiculus in lingua canum, qui vocatur lytta, quo excepto, 

 " infantibus catulis, nee rabidi firent, nee fastidium sentiunt." — Plinii, 

 Hist. Nat. lib. xxix, c. 32. Paris, 4to, 1685. In 



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